Refractive Index Enhancement with Vanishing Absorption in an Atomic Vapor
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Refractive index enhancement with vanishing absorption in an atomic vapor.
We report a proof-of-principle experiment where the refractive index of an atomic vapor is enhanced while maintaining vanishing absorption of the beam. The key idea is to drive alkali atoms in a vapor with appropriate control lasers and induce a gain resonance and an absorption resonance for a probe beam in a two-photon Raman configuration. The strength and the position of these two resonances ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review Letters
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0031-9007,1079-7114
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.101.147401